Staying on your diet is, like I said yesterday, dependent on keeping your vision on your highest goals, and your moral compass fixed on weight control. That helps you to pay attention to physical hunger, and to refuse to allow emotional hunger to get confused in with it. If you don’t pay attention, you lose that focus and you won’t stay in control of what you eat….and what you weigh.
If you do pay attention, and keep your focus on being prepared for the next meal, you can use that to reward yourself for sacrificing having a full belly.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – Costco pepperoni pizza half slice (355); chicken strips (100)
- 450 calories
Lunch – Big Greek Cafe $5 Gyro Wednesday!!!! (600);
- 600 calories
Dinner – taco pizza: one flour tortilla (140); refried beans (100); ground beef (200); shredded cheese (50); sour cream (30)
- 520 calories
Snacking – tea with half and half (120); half a wheat beer (70); chocolate cookie (95);
- 285 calories
Total for the day: 1855 calories (limit 1800)
Food security
A large part of success in weight control is to have your menu planned out in such a way that you have something to look forward to at every point during the day. Each meal doesn’t have to be *more* exciting than the last, but each has to be legitimately interesting to you. Your last bite of gyro for lunch might trigger the thought: I hope I enjoy dinner this much! And that means not just eating whatever you have in a drawer or in the fridge, but deciding on something that is worth waiting for. It does mean cooking ahead and portioning your meals. You have more control that way than over most restaurant meals, anyway.
For example, for tomorrow’s breakfast, I am going to have bacon. I don’t want to ruin my appetite for that!
-The Doctor